Compound tool



P. S. MINGES.

comrouwo TOOL. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 24, 19131.

Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

PHILIP S. MINGES, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA,

COMPOUND TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 24, 1919; Serial No. 347,140.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP S. MINGES, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county ofCharleston and State of SouthCarolina, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Compound Tools, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to compound tools of the wrench type, and has forits object to provide a tool panticularly serviceable for work onbicycles and similar machines containing a plurality of nuts ofdifferent sizes, the tool including a set of wrenches of the socket andfixed jaw types as well as a hammer and ascrew driver. The tool includesa handle or stock provided at each end with wrenches of the socket typeand of different sizes, and also provided with a set of fixed jaw endwrenches of different sizes. One end of the stock is providedwith ascrew-driver and the other end with a hammer head.

The tool is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a plan thereof, and F 2 is an edge view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6

indicates the stock or handle,which is slot-..

ted lengthwise as shown at 7. One end of the handle or stock is enlargedto form a head 8, and the other end enlarged to form a head 9. In eachof these heads sockets of different sizes are formed. On one side thehead 8 has a socket 10 and on the other side a larger socket indicatedat 11. And on one side the head 9 has a socket 12 and on the other sidea larger socket 13. This makes four sockets in all, of different sizes,which will take different size nuts by being placed thereover. Thesockets extend through the heads, being stepped where they .join, toproduce difier-' en t sizes on the opposite sides. The head 8 .is alsoprovided on one edge with a hammer face 14: and on the opposite sidewith a pair of parallel jaws 15 which may be used as a wrench or thelike.

A plurality of fixed jaw end wrenches indicated at 16 are pivoted at 17to swing into Patenteil Mar. 1.11921 and out of the slot 7. TheseWrenches consist of relatively thin metal plates with fixed jaws at thefree ends of different sizes. The head 9 also has a screw driver 18projecting from the end thereof.

The whole tool provides a set of wrenches and other instruments in verysmall and convenient compass, and. will be found. very serviceable forbicycle and automobile work, although of course capable for use on workofother kinds. 7

I claim:

A compound tool comprising a handle having wrench heads at oppositeends, the handle being slotted between the heads, and a plurality offixed-jaw wrenches pivoted at one end to the handle within the slot, thelength of said fixed-jaw wrenches being less than that of the slot,whereby they may all be folded into the slot in parallelism to thehandle.

In testimony whereof, I hereby afiix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

EUGENE G. JoHNsoN, W. K. MoDownLL,

